linux-kernel - Re: checkpatch.pl misreporting bugs with array fillings

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Date:	Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:15:55 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl misreporting bugs with array fillings

On Fri, 2011-12-16 at 22:59 +0100, Marek Vasut wrote:
> static const unsigned char pci_irq_swizzle[2][PCI_MAX_DEVICES] = {
>         {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 27, 27, [9 ... PCI_MAX_DEVICES - 1] = 0 },
>         {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 29, 29, [9 ... PCI_MAX_DEVICES - 1] = 0 },
> };

True.

Andy will probably figure it out.
He's the maintainer.

Still, in this case all the 0's are unnecessary.
I'd probably write that code as:

static const unsigned char pci_irq_swizzle[2][PCI_MAX_DEVICES] = {
	{ [7] = 27, [8] = 27 },
	{ [7] = 29, [8] = 29 },
};	


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